[hnpolicestate]

Ya I would assume those already recruited into the military have a warrior mentality.

But the article is talking about recruiting first from the general public. American men have very much feminized over the past 50 years.

I remember back how the high school seniors at my school in 2002 had mustaches, were smoking cigarettes, they looked like full grown men.

Something has changed. I think a social premium on safety also results in a poorer recruiting class in the U.S.

[cafard]

If it's fifty years of feminization, and seniors 22 years ago had mustaches and were smoking cigarettes, just think what us knuckle-draggers were doing in the class of 1973. (Only a few guys smoked cigarettes, and apart from one beard-growing contest one year, facial hair was not permitted.)